POLL: 44% Favor Health Care Reform, 50% Oppose.

IS IT REALLY OIL GOING UP, OR IS IT THE DOLLAR GOING DOWN? Oil Jumps to $75 to hit one-year high.

TV CRITIC: “The Obama administration is dangerous to press freedom.”

DISPASSIONATE JUDGES and Easter Bunnies.

The difference is, I’ve met an Easter Bunny. Okay, actually I’ve met one fairly dispassionate judge, too, but I don’t have a photo.

POLL: Americans, In Reversal, Back Afghan Surge.

WEIRD: Rep. Robert Wexler resigning from Congress.

MARIA SHRIVER, cellphone scofflaw.

Laws, like taxes, are for the little people.

SUSANNAH BRESLIN wrote an essay on how the recession is affecting the porn industry. It was slotted for a magazine, but I guess it wasn’t cheery enough. So she’s published it herself.

NOT A BIG SURPRISE: Video: Lindsey Graham heckled at South Carolina town hall.

MOZILO’S FRIENDS ON THE HILL: Democrats block probe of Countrywide scandal.

ED DRISCOLL: Made-up Limbaugh Quotes.

Given that Wikipedia once featured a picture of me in an “I had an abortion” t-shirt that was actually an old photoshop from Allahpundit, I wouldn’t place too much reliance in what Wikipedia and its cousins say about people, especially when they’re at the focus of ongoing controversy. . . .

UPDATE: Video: Chris Matthews Muses On Killing Rush Limbaugh. This is who these people are, and this is what they do.

HAPPY, HAPPY, JOY, JOY: Dollar loses reserve status to yen & euro. But that’s good because . . . if it weren’t good, President Obama wouldn’t allow it!

THEY DON’T CALL IT THE “NATIONAL FELON’S LEAGUE” FOR NOTHING: What is, and isn’t, acceptable in the NFL.

A BLU-RAY SALE, at Amazon.

A SITE DEDICATED TO THE ACORN/CARNAHAN CONNECTION. (Via Dana Loesch).

TENNESSEE DEMOCRAT OPPOSES GAY ADOPTION.

LIST: 100 Best Professors Who Blog.

PRESIDENT OBAMA’S FAVORITE WORDS: “Let me be clear.”

(Via Blithe Spirit).

UPDATE: Reader Peggy Heath writes:

I’m in my mid-fifties, and when I hear Obama say either, “Make no mistake” or “Let me be clear”, my memory inserts the word “perfectly” and I’m listening to Tricky Dick again. I haven’t heard anyone else remark upon it, though.

Indeed.

NICK GILLESPIE: Cheerios’ Reign of Terror Must Be Stopped! Or, Thank God For Cass Sunstein. Really.

ASPIRIN AND THE 1918 FLU: A deadly combination? Well, sometimes, maybe.

REVIEWING THE REVIEWERS: A roundup of book reviews from all over.

SEARCH ENGINE BING.COM IS DOING WELL. I’ve started using it regularly, and I’m quite happy with the results.

WHY PEOPLE ARE BAILING OUT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN INCREASING NUMBERS. “Zachary’s offense? Taking a camping utensil that can serve as a knife, fork and spoon to school. He was so excited about recently joining the Cub Scouts that he wanted to use it at lunch. School officials concluded that he had violated their zero-tolerance policy on weapons, and Zachary was suspended and now faces 45 days in the district’s reform school.”

The excuses offered for this piece of idiocy are even more damning than the idiocy itself.

CATO INSTITUTE: What Does the State Department Not Want Us to Know about Honduras?

THE COLLIDER, A PARTICLE, and a theory about fate:

A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather. . . . This malign influence from the future, they argue, could explain why the United States Superconducting Supercollider, also designed to find the Higgs, was canceled in 1993 after billions of dollars had already been spent, an event so unlikely that Dr. Nielsen calls it an “anti-miracle.”

This theory does lend a certain majesty to what has otherwise been a fairly embarrassing chain of events . . .